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A wealth of valuable information on the most vital plant genera and species that have potent anticancer activities. It provides knowledge of secondary metabolite profiling, active ingredients, modes of action, and pharmacological outcomes and discusses their potential of important anticancer plants at the global level.

Considers state-of-the-art developments in polymer science and the role of polymers in the progress of green chemistry and medicine. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, it discusses Polymer Synthesis and Application, Materials and Properties, Composites and Nanostructures, and Constitutional Systems for Medicine.

A wealth of information on plants of the Lamiaceae species, providing for each an introduction, characteristics, properties, distribution, traditional uses, and current and potential pharmacological applications. Covers 26 species including bungleweed Malabar catmint, beechwood, Brazilian mint, rosemary, holy basil, and many more.

Looks at medicinal plants and their uses that have beneficial results against cancer. Topics include Unani approaches of anticancer plants, genetic engineering and CRISPR/CAS-mediated editing to enhance anticancer potential, computational approaches, and more. It also examines the metabolomics of plants that give them anti-cancer properties.

Presents recent advances in drug repurposing and computational approaches for the discovery and development of drugs for certain difficult-to-treat and life-threatening diseases, providing information on computational techniques, tools, and databases for identifying the uses of existing drug candidates on different emerging diseases.

Focuses on materials for energy generation and includes applications to solve alternative energy issues. Covers energy applications using polymer nanocomposites with smart behavior, magnetorheological properties of smart polymer systems, metal-organic frameworks-emerging porous materials; applications of carbon nanotubes.

Looks at traditional medicinal plants for their nutritional benefits, while also encouraging the preservation of biodiversity. It presents information on over 2200 vascular plant taxa from 127 families and many taxa from leaf parts, fruits, underground parts, floral parts, seeds, and more. Also discusses wild edible mushrooms (206 species).

Discusses the traditional use of medicinal plants as promising therapeutics for cancer, liver conditions, COVID-19, and other human ailments. It examines the efficacy of Ayurvedic and Chinese herbal medicine, Indian traditional medicine, and other ethnic herbal practices used by indigenous peoples of Azerbaijan, Turkey, India, etc.

Explores new technologies for the inactivation of enzymes in the design and preservation of food through advanced technologies, including nutraceutical-based functional foods, specific foods for gut-microbiodata, omega-3 fatty acids to fortify food products, characteristics of dairy-based dry powders, and more.

Discusses developments in algal active metabolites for biotechnological, commercial, and industrial applications, emphasizing various algal metabolites and assessing their significance as antibiotics, antiviral, anti-inflammatory, and anticancer agents as well as their use as fertilizer and in biofuel, pollution prevention, etc.

Focusing on surface and groundwater and sustainable solutions, this book highlights recent trends in the water sector that employ innovative management and conservation approaches in conjunction with climatic uncertainty, using hydrometeorological data sets and hydrological modeling.

An exploration of machine learning advancements. It covers many aspects in machine learning, along with the applications in healthcare, in the steel industry, for urban information retrieval, in garbage detection, in measuring air pollution, for stock market predictions, for underwater fish detection, as a fake news predictor, and more.

Presents some insightful perspectives and important advances in the bioethanol industry, detailing the biochemical and physiological parameters carried out by the main bioethanol-producing microorganisms as well as the discusses the potential applications that bioproducts can have and the advantages they generate.

Discusses innovative and new biotechnological techniques to assess, analyze, and mitigate pollutants and wastes from agricultural and industrial operations. It includes approaches involving genomics, proteomics, transcriptomics, metabolomics, and fluxomics.

Discusses how integrating IoT devices and cyber-physical systems can be used for a multitude of applications, such as satellite imaging in relation to climate change, industrial control systems, e-healthcare applications, security uses, automotive and traffic monitoring and control, urban smart city planning, and more.

A comprehensive review of the evolution, diagnosis, prevention, control, and treatment strategies (both modern as well as complementary and alternative modes) being used against COVID-19. The book is organized in sections that cover pathology, epidemiology and diagnosis; prevention strategies; and treatment.

This book explores the various soil management techniques and the latest improvements in soil management. Taking a sustainable approach, the volume begins with an overview of the elementary concepts of soil management and then delves into new research and novel soil management tools and techniques

Explores a plethora of blockchain-based solutions for big data and IoT real-world applications in several sectors, including higher education, cybersecurity, agriculture, business and management, healthcare and biomedical science, construction and project management, smart city development, and others.

This book highlights the recent innovative work in nutraceutical delivery systems, focusing on strategies and approaches for delivering maximum health benefits from foods.

Focuses on novel and nonthermal processing of food and food products, incluing dielectric heating and ohmic heating as well as three-dimensional printing of foods and ozonization of food products. It also delves into process interventions for food processing and preservations.

This book details state-of-the-art developments and emerging challenges of glycome biology, which are going to be key areas of future research, not only in the glycobiology field but also in pharmaceutics.

This new volume shares a plethora of valuable information on the recent advances in packaging and storage technologies used for quality preservation of fresh fruits and vegetables.

Addresses many important applications and advances in the field, covering plasmonics and carbon dots physics with applications; optical films, fibers, and materials; optical properties of advanced materials; molecular physics and diffusion; and macromolecular physics.

The handbook provides an understanding of consolidated processing and biorefinery systems for the production of bio-based chemicals and value-added bioproducts from renewable sources. The chapters look at a variety of bioenergy technological advances that aim to lower our dependence of fossil fuels and consequently reduce emissions.

This volume contains peer-reviewed chapters and original research on chemistry and its broad range of applications in chemical engineering. Covering both theoretical and practical applications of modern chemistry, the book presents a different aspects of chemistry and chemical engineering. The book includes the most significant new research papers and other original contributions on the structure of single molecules and radicals, molecular assemblies, gases, liquids (including water and solutions), amorphous and crystalline solids, surfaces, films and nanoparticles (including inorganic, organic and organometallic compounds), molecular and polymeric materials, single crystals, and minerals. The aim of this multidisciplinary book is to promote communication and dialogue among researchers, scientists, engineers, and policymakers working in the areas of modern chemistry and chemical engineering and who deal with all structural aspects of modern chemistry and chemical engineering. The research provided here will be especially valuable to those interested in the principles of chemical bonding and matter organization, the impact of structural aspects on a chemical property or transformation, and the application of the newest physical methods in chemical structure research.

This title includes a number of Open Access chapters.Data structure and software engineering is an integral part of computer science. This volume presents new approaches and methods to knowledge sharing, brain mapping, data integration, and data storage. The author describes how to manage an organization's business process and domain data and presents new software and hardware testing methods. The book introduces a game development framework used as a learning aid in a software engineering at the university level. It also features a review of social software engineering metrics and methods for processing business information. It explains how to use Pegasys to create and manage sequence analysis workflows.

This title includes a number of Open Access chapters.This book examines many of the predominant issues in the field of social work in mental health and substance abuse today. Topics discussed include incarceration of drug abusers, methadone treatment for heroin users, and substance abuse among sex workers. It also examines how parental smoking affects children's attitudes, binge drinking, and the correlation between depression and sociodemographic factors. The book also explores help for homeless drug abusers and more.

This title includes a number of Open Access chapters. This book explores a variety of physical, mental, and lifestyle challenges faced by community populations. Some of the topics discussed include homelessness, smoking trends among certain populations, mental health issues among different age and gender groups, substance abuse, and domestic violence. The book also examines community health promotion, nutrition intervention, contraception, and more.